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Teddy Roosevelt: “So we, the people, can preserve our liberty and our greatness in time of peace only by ourselves exercising the virtues…”

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So we, the people, can preserve our liberty and our greatness in time of peace only by ourselves exercising the virtues of honesty, of self-restraint, and of fair dealing between man and man.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

This quote underscores the necessity for citizens to practice virtues to preserve liberty and greatness in peacetime.

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